According to an advisory issued by the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), Cyclone Biparjoy had changed its course and slowly tracked in the north-northeast direction during the past 12 hours.
The 'very severe' cyclonic storm Biparjoy is expected to intensify further in the next twenty-four hours and will move north-northeastwards, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Saturday.
Cyclone Biparjoy is set to intensify in the next 36 hours and will be heading north-northwestwards in the next two days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in a tweet on Friday.
The very severe cyclonic storm cyclone was located over the east-central Arabian Sea located 840-kilometer west-southwest of Goa and 870 km west-southwest of Mumbai Thursday night.
A depression over the southeast Arabian Sea is likely to move northward and intensify into a cyclonic storm, India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Tuesday.
In the statement, IMD said, "The Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm "Mocha" (pronounced as "Mokha") over Northeast Bay of Bengal moved nearly north-northeastwards and lay centered at 1330 hours IST of today, the 14th May 2023 over Myanmar & southeast Bangladesh coastline near latitude 20.3&
"The ESCS "Mocha" lay centered at 0530hrs IST of 14th May 2023 over Northeast & adjoining Eastcentral Bay of Bengal near lat 18.7N & long 91.5E. Its likely to cross between Cox's Bazar (Bangladesh) & Kyaukpyu (Myanmar), close to Sittwe (Myanmar) around noon of today," IMD twee
Cyclone Mocha intensified into a "very severe" cyclonic storm today over the Central and adjoining Southeast Bay of Bengal and moved nearly north-northeastwards, officials said on Friday.
In this regard, the official media handle of the Indian Meteorological Department took to Twitter and said, "Cyclonic storm Mocha over the southeast Bay of Bengal about 510 km west-southwest of Port Blair, 1190 km south-southwest of Coxs Bazar (Bangladesh). To intensify into a severe cycloni